Join Harvard Hillel for a joyous, meaningful, and memorable High Holiday season!
Current Harvard students are admitted to all services free of charge. For all others, registration will admit you to any and all of our denominational High Holiday services throughout campus. We ask that you please help support Harvard Hillel and our programming with a donation as you participate in our holiday offerings. If the suggested donations are prohibitive, please let us know. We turn nobody away for financial reasons.
How To Get Tickets
Give online. Please note: when you make a gift online, the confirmation email you receive serves as your ticket. You do not need to print out multiples of the email.
Give via your donor advised fund. Our EIN is: 04-2620801. Please indicate that your gift is for High Holidays or email us to let us know your contribution is coming and how many tickets you would like.
Mail a check. Requests for tickets received by September 1 will be mailed to your address, after which tickets can be picked up at Harvard Hillel or emailed to you. Please mail your check to:
Harvard Hillel
Attn: High Holidays
52 Mt. Auburn St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Announcements
- Please keep in mind that parking is limited in Harvard Square. There are some parking garages and metered parking available throughout the square. For more information on public parking, please see this page. Parking in the Rosovsky Hall (Harvard Hillel) parking lot is not allowed.
- Community tashlikh and shofar will take place at the John Weeks Footbridge at 3:30 pm on the second day of Rosh HaShanah (Sunday, September 13)—all are welcome!
- After Kol Nidrei services on Yom Kippur, join an evening of song and study led by Rabbi Jason Rubenstein and Rabbi Elisha Gechter, open to all prayer communities at 8:30 pm on Sunday, September 20th in Smith Hall.
- After the conclusion of Yom Kippur, we invite everyone to our community break-fast at 7:30 PM.
Rosh HaShanah and Holiday Meals
- Community members, alumni, and families are welcome at our festive Rosh HaShanah dinners at Rosovsky Hall (52 Mount Auburn Street) held after evening services on both nights of the holiday:
- Erev Rosh HaShanah — Friday, September 11, following services
- Second night — Saturday, September 12, following services
- Harvard students dine as our guests. For community members, alumni, and families, meal purchases can be made here, separate from High Holiday service registration. Shabbat and Yom Tov Meals can also be purchased using the same link.
Purchase Holiday & Shabbat Meals.
We look forward to celebrating with you and wishing you a good, safe, and healthy New Year!
Shanah Tovah!
Questions? Please email us or call 617-495-4695.
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Reform
Memorial Church · 1 Harvard Yard
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Yom Kippur
Conservative
Smith Hall, Harvard Hillel · 52 Mount Auburn St.
Rosh HaShanah
Yom Kippur
Orthodox
Beren Hall, Harvard Hillel · 52 Mount Auburn St.
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Yom Kippur
Worship & Study Minyan
First Church Cambridge · 11 Garden St.
Rosh HaShanah
Yom Kippur
Harvard Hillel
52 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-4695 hillel.harvard.edu
Harvard Hillel wishes to thank this year’s High Holiday Sponsors.
- Steven Atlas and Lestra Litchfield
- Dr. Alan Ezekowitz
- Ben and Barbara Friedman
- Roy and Myra Gordon
- Jerry and Pamela Green
- Stephen C. Harrison
- John Kirsch and Sandra Shapiro
- Daniel and Kit Kuritzkes
- Tamara Elliott Rogers